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description: A prince has loved and lost a princess, who is so beautiful that no man can look at her without fainting. Who acts: princess, man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 61

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A prince has loved and lost a princess, who is so beautiful that no man can look at her without fainting.

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**Who acts:** princess, man · **What happens:** love, lose, be, look, faint · **To what, where:** prince, princess

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:25:61
# text = A prince has loved and lost a princess, who is so beautiful that no man can look at her without fainting.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present · perfect · passive |  | a prince |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lose** | past |  | a princess |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | a princess |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | can | no man |  |  |  |  | at princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at her=Theme |
| 5 | **faint** | gerund | no man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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